When I was young I believed that striking workers on picket lines kept warm by burning brassieres. It was only when I was 34 that I realised the reporters on newscasts must have been referring to burning 'braziers'.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I thought that 'burning' DVDs and CDs was literally incinerating them. — These Tunes Are FIRE!
- as a kid [until age 7] I used to believed that the tv
reporters were literally sitting inside the tv! — nüel - When I was young I thought people smoked to stay warm.— Phil Stam
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I used to believe that you could keep a chicken egg (that you bought) warm, and it would hatch!Anon